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By Woman's Favour. By Henry Erroll. 3 Vols. (richard Bentley

and Son.)—It might be well for Mr. Erroll, when he next writes a novel, to choose a better kind of hero than George L'Estrange. It is tiresome to read of the successes of a......

Current Literature.

Under the title of Subjects of the Day, Messrs. Routledge have commenced the publication of a new quarterly, the fundamental idea of which is eminently original. For their......

Summer Rambles Round Manchester.*

THOMAS DE QIIINCEY, looking back on his childhood, declared that if, "after the manner of the Emperor Aurelius, he should return thanks to Providence" for all the blessings of......

Three Diggers : A Tale Of The Australian 'fifties. By

Percy Clarke, LL.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Clarke has some- thing to say, events and adventures quorum pars flat, as we suppose. The mistake that he has made is a want of......

Prince Maurice Of Stalland. By "h. R. H." (remington And

Co.)—This is a tale founded, it would appear, on the deplorable story of the Crown Prince of Austria, a painful, one might almost say, even hideous subject, which readers of......

The Lloyds Of Ballymore. By Edith Rochfort. 2 Vols. (chap-

man and Hall.)—We expect now, when we open "a story of Irish life," not the entertainment of which we were once sure, but something peculiarly dismal. It may be said, of course,......